A graduate of Berklee College of Music and the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz Performance, Godwin Louis B.M. ’08 leads a clinic on ethnomusicology with demonstration of the diasporic principles.

On Elise Davis’s new album, Cactus, she moves between lush alt-country and stripped-down folk confessionals, gluing everything together with story-driven songs about independence, liberation, and resilience as an adult woman.

Few people can front a rock band, sing Górecki’s Third Symphony, lead a marching band processional down the streets of the Sundance Film Festival, and perform in a baroque opera of their own composing in a month’s time, but Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond can.